Plot Synopsis

Based on Oscar Wilde's short story of the same name -- but set in leafy 21st century rural England -- THE CANTERVILLE GHOST is a four-part, hour-long limited series that sees American tech billionaire Hiram Otis buy Canterville Chase, unaware that the contents include a malevolent family ghost, Sir Simon de Canterville, who has been haunting the premises for centuries. Or that his family will face the full might of the English aristocracy: united in opposition to the parvenu Americans. The contemporary reimagining of the classic Oscar Wilde comedy revolves around three families -- the aristocratic Cantervilles, the Romani Lovells and the American Otises -- who must come together to find redemption and heal the past. Despite its modern setting, it's an old world, bound by strict social convention and archaic traditions. A world of house parties and cricket matches, fox hunting and pheasant shooting. The stately homes of the aristocracy and a resident ghost.